There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Wherever you are, whoever you are, I am touching you and feeling you, not with my hand, but with my feelings and love.

Every photo tells a story but remember this, there was a story teller behind the lens.

Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.